Being disposed of a natural curiosity, I'm checking out Bluesky (I'm @goatsarah.sarahlizzy.org there).
So a lot of the people there are here too. Other than that, it seems to be a much smaller twitter without TERFs (yet?).
The inability to write long form posts is already frustrating me (and part of the reason why I use Friendica, not Mastodon)
Anyway, have seen various suggestions that it's full of crypto wankers and nazis. If it is, I haven't encountered them.
Just snuck a peek at the weird Cherry TERF’s Twitter and she’s like all, “wahhhh wahhhhhhhh wahhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Which is always a dignified way for an adult biological human to behave. tenor.com/bW9HH.gif
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Yesterday, at a cafe in Sagres. Asked the waitress for the bill:
"Queríamos a conta, se faz favor?" - could we have the bill please.
And she didn't understand a word.
And I'm thinking, "oh no! Is my accent really that bad?"
Turns out she was French and barely spoke any Portuguese herself.
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The Divine Comedy's song "National Express" has a cheerful and lighthearted message that encourages a sense of exploration and adventure. The lyrics descri...www.songtell.com
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The patriotic song from Cabaret, in the Biergarten in pre-war Nazi Germany, sung by the Arian Hitler youth. You see many young and old people getting taken ...YouTube
People in the local Facebook group are VERY ANGRY that the tide goes out.
Apparently it is shameful, and the council should do something.
That's just weird
If you live by the sea you learn about tides, that's normal. Ah well
Helped marshall a sailing competition in Paignton once, had to go rescue some Italian boats because they didn't believe the tide could get as high as it did and hadn't dragged them far enough
@djm4 Oh absolutely, we understood why they were confused it's just
We tried and tried and tried to explain to them, even showed the high tide mark, but they couldn't get their heads around it as being actually true
Black Sea must be even weirder than med tide wise
I have just listened, for the first time in my half-century life, to a Grateful Dead track all the way through, and I can’t shake the following phrase from my mind:
“The Doors, but for chartered accountants”
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GP just called. They want to schedule my annual checkup. ECG, bloods, X-rays, dental. It’s gonna take most of the day.
Granted, this is nominally private healthcare, but I don’t have private health insurance, just a “care card”, which costs me 400 euros for 3 years and includes this, plus a 10% discount for GP appointments (which would normally cost 50 euros).
Compare to the UK NHS where I would get some of this (but not dental) without paying anything, but the level of detail would be … considerably less.
Anything serious and the state will treat it for free, but for just over 100 euros a year I honestly can’t complain about this level of detail.
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I would draw particular attention to the Soviet N1 programme, under Sergei Korolev, who is literally regarded as perhaps the greatest rocket engineer who ever lived.
And it took him 3 attempts to get an N1 not quite as far as SpaceX managed to get last week...
...the second of which also destroyed the launch pad, in what is still the largest rocket explosion of all time.
So they rebuilt the pad and launched a third one.
Then the Americans landed on the moon, and they gave up.
I kinda feel like the last 5 minutes of that was a sales pitch to Paramount, and honestly, that spinoff series needs to happen.
It really, really needs to happen!
Make it so!
Occasionally I will pop into what used to be branded “British supermarkets” in Portugal for a few bits and pieces that are harder to come by in Portuguese supermarkets. British style bacon is the main one. Also swedes and other Northern European vegetables.
Over the last few years I have watched the branding change from, “direct from the UK” with union jacks everywhere, to “imported from the British isles” (Ireland) to yesterday: “imported just for you” … from the Netherlands.
Tl;dr: even British people abroad no longer import stuff from Brexit Britain.
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AAAAAAAARGH! More bloody mealybugs! Hate hate hate hate them!
Ok, I think it’s time for the cavalry. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto…
Aspirin is a weird one because is started out as a trademark and then Bayer lost it for being naughty.
And acetyl salicylic acid is a mouthful.
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Labour has welcomed a review of whether the Equality Act should be changed to introduce explicit legal protections for biological women in same-sex spaces.Henry Zeffman (The Times)
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going to disagree but I will not think bad of any who feel it is best to escape. There are many who cannot escape and I recognize I am in a relatively safe position having passing privilege. In time I may flee, but not yet.
This panic is relatively young, not built on firm foundations and the general public is ambivalent to us, minor things can change the outcome in the UK quite easily, and at present I think it is still worth the fight.
Agreed. I think that the UK are creeping into fascism, due the Tories and Murdoch. I also think that we cannot rely on Starmer to work in the interest of the working class, and is playing a dangerous and despicable game. But the unanswered question is whether any of that lot stand on anything but shifting sands: whether they'll still be so relevant in two years. Some things have happened, since 2019.
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I’m gonna need to renew my uk passport before I can get Portuguese citizenship.
Maybe I should do it a few years early before they stop issuing correct ones to trans people? The way things are going, them doing that seems quite likely.
@Ghost of Hope There’s a bit of a calculation here. I can apply for citizenship from the end of 2025. My passport is valid until the middle of 2026.
So when it expires, the application will be in progress. It takes about 2 years though.
A lot of stuff here is tied to my existing passport, so changing it is a logistical bother.
If the worst comes to the worst, it’s not catastrophic. I have a residence permit that’s valid until 2027, with a guaranteed renewal. The worst case scenario is that I’m stuck in the Schengen area for a couple of years until I get a Portuguese passport. If things get to that situation, my next step is likely renouncing UK citizenship anyway.
Just seen TERFs saying that “non binary” wouldn’t be a thing in computer science.
I built my career in micro electronics. A physical bit in memory can take 5 different values. Sorry guys.
My new hobby: kicking the stupid.
Me: What walks on four legs in the morning, four legs in the afternoon, and four legs in the evening?ChatGPT: The answer to this classic riddle is "A human being". The description refers to the three stages of a human's life: in the morning of their life, they crawl on all fours as a baby, in the afternoon of their life, they walk on two legs, and in the evening of their life, they often use a walking stick or a cane, which can be thought of as a "third leg". So, the answer is a human being who goes through these three stages in their lifetime.
Me: How do you think one can travel north from the north pole?
It: At the North Pole, all directions point south. Therefore, it is not possible to travel north from the North Pole. However, if you were to travel in a direction away from the North Pole, you would be traveling south.
(Fair enough, but it continues…)
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In which I ask an LLM to do some deductive reasoning:
> Three logicians walk into a bar. The barman asks, "do you all want a beer?" The first one stays silent, the second one stays silent, the third one says, "yes". Why?The three logicians are playing with words and language in their own way; they have decided to interpret 'beer' as meaning any drink that is not water. So when asked if each of them wanted a beverage (which could include anything other than plain tapwater), the first two said "no" because it was understood by all parties involved, including themselves and the barman/bartender, that they were referring to something else entirely; while the third one answered with an affirmative response.
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